Said by someone who is neither genderfluid nor intersex ...
This is how you lose credibility even with those ostensibly on your side. WTF do those words even mean? It sounds like you're talking about shapeshifters and green skinned aliens.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Good cops would welcome the cameras
One reason they waited as long as they did was they were hoping he would finally sleep and they could take him alive.
Then they should've just filled the place with tear gas and pepper spray. You can't aim steadily when you're coughing your lungs out and can't see for tears filling your eyes.
Well, so far there has been no American blood running in the veins of a U.S. presidents. All Europeans before Obama.
If you're going to claim they're not American, then they're not European either. They're all African. Lets all meet back at Olduvai Gorge for a class reunion, and strand all the racists there when we go back home. They can try again.
Oh, come on. They're only shooting minorities. You know, blacks, chicanos, the homeless, and maybe Native Americans. It's a bit disingenuous to stretch that out by saying they're shooting "people", as if they're shooting just anyone. Get a grip. Bleeding heart liberals. Gah!
Re: I hit you in the face last week, but I'm not hitting you now, no problem
What about the bruises for last month's beating: when does the victim get recompense for those?
"Those bruises could have happened any number of ways, and in fact we've surveillance records from last month showing the victim was associating with some fairly unsavory characters. However, you may not see them because national security."
"How about the seventh, do you have surveillance records for the day I'm alleging you beat me up?"
"We can neither confirm nor deny ... national security."
Re: While we're at it, why don't we stop the racket ...
... and won't release the code so someone else can do so!
You know that's why Stallman started Gnu? He wanted to add functionality to a printer driver but was refused the code to do so. I hope that printer driver writer's happy having complete control over his now long obsolete code.
If you do not understand this use of interfaces to decouple different parts of a system from implementation details you will implement a system that is a nightmare to modify.
Well said. On the other hand, not doing that isn't fatal. It's just expensive in the long run. You'll end up reinventing the wheel over and over again.
Think of Linus Torvald's Linux which he explicitly started developing for Intel 80386 processors. When he began he had no intention that it should run on other CPUs. However, once he saw the possibilities and heard the demand from interested users, he split out CPU specific functionality into discrete block(s), so at compile time the code would choose the correct block to be used based on the target CPU. Linux now runs on damned near everything from cellphones through mainframes to supercomputers. Only those hardware specific blocks are different, while the rest of the OS is common to all, no reinventing necessary. The same is true for all the Gnu userland stuff, most of which was originally designed for proprietary Unix boxes. Abstraction allowed it to be used in Linux as well.
That made it easy to scale from 80386 to 80486 to Pentium, yada yada. It also minimized the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit, Intel to AMD, x86 to Motorola (Apple), & etc.
Funny thing happened back then at IBM. They resented losing control over what they gave away (or failed to lock up), and they tried to supplant it with proprietary locked down Microchannel. Seen any Microchannel PCs lately? They didn't play nicely so were abandoned like the cul de sac they deserved to be. I was hoping to get OpenBSD to support Microchannel at the time, but IBM and its Dog In A Manger attitude killed that. Locked down and proprietary gets you walled gardens ruled by tyrants; pretty silly if you want to expand the market for your products.
Re: There may not be any. Gag orders are rare and extra-ordinary as you remark, can't be rigidly defined.
Similarly, I've tried to find or get stated guidelines here at Techdirt on the "Censor" ...
Why, so you can find a way to game it? WTF do you care? If it's so offensive to you, go somewhere else, somewhere that appreciates your timeless wisdom and deep insight.
Or, be like the rest of us and try to learn from what others offer. Nobody's forced to agree with anything here, other than be civil, respect the views of others even when you disagree with them, and try not to look like someone's paying you to astroturf and bludgeon others into agreeing with your viewpoint. That doesn't actually work, you know?
You should be careful with that. Manning's convicted and Snowden's accused of treason. You could be accused of aiding and giving comfort to foreign enemies. And, now you've written it you're recorded in the NSA's database.
Why thanks. I've enjoyed yours often enough as well. I just try to entertain (make it worth reading) and maybe educate, and if I can also scare the bejeesus out of somebody (with something I run across that scares the bejeesus out of me) and wake them up to think a little deeper, that's good too.
I just had an idea. Charge the gov't with obstruction of justice. Even if it doesn't work, it might create PR benefits when it's on the six o'clock news.
... then the DOJ needs to overhaul its FOIA efforts to actually align with the law itself ...
My first thought was, "Ha, hahahahahaha!"
However, based on other articles I've read (including here), they've apparently been intentionally doing the opposite of what you suggest. It's not uncommon for FOIA filers to have to file multiple times, specifying exactly which database the info would be found in, none of which are named or advertised outside the agency in question.
The DoD hates the 1st Amendment & Freedom of the Press, most agencies despise FOIA, and the president himself has nothing but contempt for whistleblowing.
"If you create encryption, it makes it harder for the American government to do its job—while protecting civil liberties—to make sure that evildoers aren’t in our midst," ...
Bush said "we need to find a new arrangement with Silicon Valley in this regard because I think this is a very dangerous kind of situation."
This is, of course, mostly deeply wrong, while also partially right, but for the wrong reasons.
I believe you're giving him far too much credit here. He obviously (to me, at least) hasn't any clue whatsoever what he's talking about. He's just (poorly it seems; can't even do this right) spouting talking points his handlers have told him to say. There is no evidence of actual comprehension of the ideas he's being told to say.
This is starting to explain a lot for me; how their father managed to head the CIA (a horribly disfunctional agency populated by kindergartner crack addict intellects), then get elected president, then freak out when the USSR threatened to collapse, then when The Shrub took the presidency, then in spite of all that Jeb somehow manages to look like a viable candidate for the presidency.
The US is nuts, and that family is missing some chromosomes, and it's showing more and more as you go further forward. If Jeb has any children, they might be happier in the primate exhibit at the Zoo. Sorry kids, you was robbed!
On the bright side, we don't need to care about Global Warming anymore. The US' electoral system is well on its way to destroying the world, likely in our lifetime.
Translation: "Mommy, mommy, look at me. Mommy, look at me. Mommy, look at me! Mommy, look at me!"
Looks momentarily. "Yes dear." Goes back to what she was doing. "Only one more month until he's in kindergarten, then I'll not have to put up with him for more than half a day. Come on, September!"
"Mommy, mommy, look at me. Mommy, look at me. Mommy, look at me! Mommy, look at me!"
... there is too little recognition that a lot of perfectly innocent people were harmed as well.
Well like I said, ALM's IT is such shit, "harmed" is really overstating it. There is no evidentiary value in their data. If anyone confronts anyone with having found their name in that db, they're more than justified in just blowing it off or lying their heads off about it. "Never even heard of Ashley Madison and I've never been there. End of story, prove me wrong, you can't."
I replaced a couple of words and you made a fantastic description of the average AC who whines about getting their crap hidden
In some circles, people like this are called, "Big Wooden Spoons." They (for whatever reason) get their kicks from "stirring the shit." Whatever, it' a pretty harmless hobby so I'm thankful he's doing this instead of shooting up churches or planting IEDs, or worse. I don't mind humoring (playing? :-) with him.
Hell, in a way, it can even be considered educational.
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This is how you lose credibility even with those ostensibly on your side. WTF do those words even mean? It sounds like you're talking about shapeshifters and green skinned aliens.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Good cops would welcome the cameras
Then they should've just filled the place with tear gas and pepper spray. You can't aim steadily when you're coughing your lungs out and can't see for tears filling your eyes.
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Re: Re: Re:
If you're going to claim they're not American, then they're not European either. They're all African. Lets all meet back at Olduvai Gorge for a class reunion, and strand all the racists there when we go back home. They can try again.
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Re: Stop shooting people.
Oh, come on. They're only shooting minorities. You know, blacks, chicanos, the homeless, and maybe Native Americans. It's a bit disingenuous to stretch that out by saying they're shooting "people", as if they're shooting just anyone. Get a grip. Bleeding heart liberals. Gah!
[Do need to mention this is sarcasm?]
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Re: I hit you in the face last week, but I'm not hitting you now, no problem
"Those bruises could have happened any number of ways, and in fact we've surveillance records from last month showing the victim was associating with some fairly unsavory characters. However, you may not see them because national security."
"How about the seventh, do you have surveillance records for the day I'm alleging you beat me up?"
"We can neither confirm nor deny ... national security."
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Re: While we're at it, why don't we stop the racket ...
You know that's why Stallman started Gnu? He wanted to add functionality to a printer driver but was refused the code to do so. I hope that printer driver writer's happy having complete control over his now long obsolete code.
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Well said. On the other hand, not doing that isn't fatal. It's just expensive in the long run. You'll end up reinventing the wheel over and over again.
Think of Linus Torvald's Linux which he explicitly started developing for Intel 80386 processors. When he began he had no intention that it should run on other CPUs. However, once he saw the possibilities and heard the demand from interested users, he split out CPU specific functionality into discrete block(s), so at compile time the code would choose the correct block to be used based on the target CPU. Linux now runs on damned near everything from cellphones through mainframes to supercomputers. Only those hardware specific blocks are different, while the rest of the OS is common to all, no reinventing necessary. The same is true for all the Gnu userland stuff, most of which was originally designed for proprietary Unix boxes. Abstraction allowed it to be used in Linux as well.
That made it easy to scale from 80386 to 80486 to Pentium, yada yada. It also minimized the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit, Intel to AMD, x86 to Motorola (Apple), & etc.
Funny thing happened back then at IBM. They resented losing control over what they gave away (or failed to lock up), and they tried to supplant it with proprietary locked down Microchannel. Seen any Microchannel PCs lately? They didn't play nicely so were abandoned like the cul de sac they deserved to be. I was hoping to get OpenBSD to support Microchannel at the time, but IBM and its Dog In A Manger attitude killed that. Locked down and proprietary gets you walled gardens ruled by tyrants; pretty silly if you want to expand the market for your products.
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Re: Re: Re: Zzzz ...
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Re: There may not be any. Gag orders are rare and extra-ordinary as you remark, can't be rigidly defined.
Why, so you can find a way to game it? WTF do you care? If it's so offensive to you, go somewhere else, somewhere that appreciates your timeless wisdom and deep insight.
Or, be like the rest of us and try to learn from what others offer. Nobody's forced to agree with anything here, other than be civil, respect the views of others even when you disagree with them, and try not to look like someone's paying you to astroturf and bludgeon others into agreeing with your viewpoint. That doesn't actually work, you know?
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Re: Asspincter Says What?
You should be careful with that. Manning's convicted and Snowden's accused of treason. You could be accused of aiding and giving comfort to foreign enemies. And, now you've written it you're recorded in the NSA's database.
Argentina has few if any immigration laws, fwiw.
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Re: Re: Orwell's an "also ran."
Have fun!
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Re: What took you so long? Last week's story.
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Re: Transparency is anathema.
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Transparency is anathema.
My first thought was, "Ha, hahahahahaha!"
However, based on other articles I've read (including here), they've apparently been intentionally doing the opposite of what you suggest. It's not uncommon for FOIA filers to have to file multiple times, specifying exactly which database the info would be found in, none of which are named or advertised outside the agency in question.
The DoD hates the 1st Amendment & Freedom of the Press, most agencies despise FOIA, and the president himself has nothing but contempt for whistleblowing.
I see a pattern at work.
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Re: Re:
Yup, "him/her/it" should cover everyone. Maybe "h*2/it" (or "h2it" for the new milennium).
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Aii, yi yi!
I believe you're giving him far too much credit here. He obviously (to me, at least) hasn't any clue whatsoever what he's talking about. He's just (poorly it seems; can't even do this right) spouting talking points his handlers have told him to say. There is no evidence of actual comprehension of the ideas he's being told to say.
This is starting to explain a lot for me; how their father managed to head the CIA (a horribly disfunctional agency populated by kindergartner crack addict intellects), then get elected president, then freak out when the USSR threatened to collapse, then when The Shrub took the presidency, then in spite of all that Jeb somehow manages to look like a viable candidate for the presidency.
The US is nuts, and that family is missing some chromosomes, and it's showing more and more as you go further forward. If Jeb has any children, they might be happier in the primate exhibit at the Zoo. Sorry kids, you was robbed!
On the bright side, we don't need to care about Global Warming anymore. The US' electoral system is well on its way to destroying the world, likely in our lifetime.
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Zzzz ...
Looks momentarily. "Yes dear." Goes back to what she was doing. "Only one more month until he's in kindergarten, then I'll not have to put up with him for more than half a day. Come on, September!"
"Mommy, mommy, look at me. Mommy, look at me. Mommy, look at me! Mommy, look at me!"
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Zzzz ...
COBOL Programmer's Daily ToDo List:
Write code.
Write code.
Write code.
Write code.
Write code.
Write code.
...
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Re: Re: Making popcorn. Lots and lots of popcorn!
Well like I said, ALM's IT is such shit, "harmed" is really overstating it. There is no evidentiary value in their data. If anyone confronts anyone with having found their name in that db, they're more than justified in just blowing it off or lying their heads off about it. "Never even heard of Ashley Madison and I've never been there. End of story, prove me wrong, you can't."
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In some circles, people like this are called, "Big Wooden Spoons." They (for whatever reason) get their kicks from "stirring the shit." Whatever, it' a pretty harmless hobby so I'm thankful he's doing this instead of shooting up churches or planting IEDs, or worse. I don't mind humoring (playing? :-) with him.
Hell, in a way, it can even be considered educational.
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